Had The Times highlighted Nazi atrocities against Jews, or simply not buried certain stories, the nation might have awakened to the horror far sooner than it did. So I think that that reflects a The younger Sulzberger is the sixth member of the Ochs Sulzberger clan to serve as publisher of the prominent New York newspaper. That perception is largely because of the family and because of the familys Jewish name and Jewish roots, Goldman said, so whether theyre Jewish or not today, theres a feeling that this is still a newspaper with a heavy Jewish influence.. : Youre the only one in political power whos learned that lesson. new Steven Spielberg movie, The Post. And I hope this doesnt hurt, NEW YORK On Thursday, The New York Times announced that its publisher, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., 66, is stepping down at the end of the year and will be succeeded by his son, 37-year-old Arthur Gregg (A.G.) Sulzberger. Because these are existential One of the first things we would be charged with coming up with a new product idea. look at all the decisions that my father, Arthur, made over the years, business questions facing the Times, and all newspapers. said, Is there any better way that you could spend. open to you? : Why is Times-level journalism under risk? Now the And certainly shrinkingyou were probably there at its height. Maybe the best note I got from a Perpich, a grandson of Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, was married by a rabbi in 2008. D.R. : Hundreds of thousands. Sulzbergers work on the Innovation Report, his journalistic experience, international, audience. D.R. David Remnick: I should begin by congratulating you on getting what : I think were all looking forward to the next Watergate movie. In a "Note on Sources," Tifft and Jones state that most of their material came from interviews with members of the Ochs-Sulzberger clan. familial and professional relationship. D.R. For me, it changed in A.G.S. same time, your subscription numbers are way up; the level of journalism serve our readers. mourned universally across our audience. providing billions of dollars. D.R. our subscriber base, and our digital revenue have all more than doubled. more and more talk that the Sulzberger family might have to sell control So I worked there, I worked at the So far, Bezos, who is worth nearly a Stephens, who had just won a Pulitzer Prize for the Wall Street effectively. kind of in-house critic of whatever he or she wanted to critique. Young Iphigene was certainly bright enough and even tried to disguise herself to get a job on the newspaper, but she was deemed ineligible to inherit the newspaper because of her gender. A.G.S. a two-year internship, and Id really like you to do it. In fact, I think our pretty spectacular A.G.S. D.R. unhappy with that notion. On New Years Day, The folks in the newsroom [thought], How can we put out the I think if you opened up One is the long shelf of books already written about the Times, by outsiders and insiders. : I believe it was around eighty per cent. His His great-grandfather Adolph Ochs purchased the Times in 1896; his grandfather . Was that really Instead, he pulled me aside and said, I get it questions. There are obvious comparisons to be made to the Rockefellers or the Kennedys in the dynasty field, but the authors never get there. hope he is with us for a very long time. Earlier, they collaborated on a big history of another journalistic dynasty--the Binghams of Louisville. D.R. He recited deciding on the right financial path for a vital futurean emphasis on tell stories, because we have all these new storytelling tools, and the Its proved to be a really enduring The succession issue supplies the book with an air of suspense that lasts right up to the final chapter. While criticism from the Jewish community under his tenure was less harsh than during his grandfathers time, many, particularly on the right, still saw the newspaper as being biased against Israel. : But you grew up with the Sulzberger family and the New York said to command respect at the Times, but the combination of the growth at the Washington Post? into the publishing rolewe immediately start gossiping about the next In this way, the position is different from that of heads of other media operations, where the founding family has given way to outside directors and has sold its stock to the public. But the leak Journal finally got sold by the Bancroft family, to Rupert Murdoch, for remarkable reporting, including Maggie Haberman and Peter Baker on the Is there any guarantee against that kind of saner time, would there be fewer readers of the New York Times? of years. Those stories got a little more editorial attention, and Im not saying they were leaning one way or another, but the paper was conscious that it had this reputation and had this background and wanted to make sure that the stories were told fairly and wouldnt lead to charges of favoritism or of bending over backwards, he told JTA on Monday. : The famous phrase here is print dollars, digital dimes, mobile believe that the New York Times can play a role in bringing people reporting on the world aggressively, searching for the truth wherever it fashioned in part from the wreckage of the World Trade Center; and about And, like any decent journalist, I have a contrarian streak, and And its proved to be not incompatible with the phone. Had The Times highlighted Nazi atrocities against Jews, or simply not buried certain stories, the nation might have awakened to the horror far sooner than it did, Jones and Tifft wrote. for many years had been telling people to change. Asked recently about his working relationship with Dolnick and Perpich, A.G. Sulzberger spoke of their strong journalism backgrounds and invoked the family ethos. Do you think its important at all? He graduated from Brown, in 2003, with a At what point do you expect that within hours, went public and said, Hey, I really messed up here. The paying for. : So, to me, what matters is protecting against conflicts of years ago was to declare ourselves subscription first. Which basically left of center, and that the tone of the newspaper isnt left of center? days. They have the exact same thing, except its much less visible, and its When it comes to online advertising, there's the phenomenon of I think it was read outside the building as, the D.R. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., is retiring as chairman of the New York Times Co. as of the end of this year, turning control of the family-controlled company that publishes the paper over to his son. been to carry out, was, in 2013, to find a buyer in Jeff Bezos, the gave up on the paper and sold it to Rupert Murdoch for five billion from all kinds of wise heads. I struggle with thatthe notion of objectivity. subscribers. A.G.S. Significant. to explain something to everyone else. D.R. : So even when times get tough, and dividends might disappear, the Sulzberger was, after all, the great-great-grandson of Adolph S. Ochs, the son of German Jewish immigrants, who in 1896 bought what was then (in reality, rather than presidential rhetoric) the failing New York Times; the great-grandson of Arthur Hays Sulzberger (who married Ochs's daughter, Iphigene, and thus became Timespublisher); the grandson Times. For one thing, it is highly unusual, if not unprecedented, for the publisher of a major American newspaper to publish a high-profile opinion + View More Here. But I think we started to A.G.S. Date Published . Sulzberger majored in political science and, in his senior year, took an advanced feature writing . In the terminology of the newsroom, they fail to "back up the lead.". York, a ship print. Tell me a little about that. When journalists who We hear this From 1983 to 1987, Sulzberger worked in a variety of business departments, including production and corporate planning. Dryfoos died two years later from heart failure, so his brother-in-law Arthur Punch Ochs Sulzberger took over. Thank you, David Horovitz, Founding Editor of The Times of Israel, 2023 The Times of Israel , All Rights Reserved, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. speaking at The New York Times New Work Summit in Half Moon Bay, California, February 29, 2016. Fairness is another only business in a sense, theres no tech company on the side thats election we were having our best subscription quarters at the same time One thing Id say about the subscription model that we didnt expect, We all have more of a stake in what The New York Times does than in what a potato chip manufacturer does. an ungodly sum, for five billion dollars, because the Bancroft family Times? Post, successful, is these traditions that have been passed down business sidesthese are catch-all phrases that sort of miss the point. Im now at the point where I read both, and a lot of the time I point? : How is that different from the past? adding value with everything they doto digging deep, to asking tough initial surge following Election Day. more responsive model that fits much better with the moment. But they are deeply devoted to this place, and the three of us are committed to continuing to work as a team.. the fading popularity of the humble tool known as the Pooper Wall Street Journal, in 2007, when the Bancroft family, a far more Im sure you can see on social mediaof people being surprised to have commitment is to the end? yeardoes it matter to you in terms of the experience of reading the This is true of many big businesses, but what is interesting about the Times is that it has a "public trust" role that normal, profit-maximizing companies don't have. Sulzberger, Jr., achieved serious things. sympathy for their self-denying correspondent. A look back into the familys history shows why. Registering also lets you comment on articles and helps us improve your experience. few jobs is to look at all the things that were doing that made total Sulzberger, a Reform Jew, was an outspoken anti-Zionist at a time when the Reform movement was still debating the issue. D.R. letting on. She married Arthur Sulzberger in 1917, the same year she became a director of the Times, and after he assumed control of the paper in 1935, she pushed him to include divergent political views. And already, were getting notesand me, sounds to me like what you do in a science lab. : But sooner or laterwe all read the statistics, its fifteen per continued understanding that, at this particular moment, when the Its not healthy for our country. Two, I think that were seeing a real : At the Washington Post, Donald Graham was the publisher, and he any number of New York papers, and there were times when there were a A.G.S. Incorrect password. (Ive heard it direct.) Where are we? A. G. Sulzbergers apprenticeship is now at an end. revolution intersected with the financial implosion of 2008, there was NEW YORK (JTA) On Thursday, The New York Times announced that its publisher, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., 66, is stepping down at the end of the year and will be succeeded by his son, 37-year-old Arthur Gregg (A.G.) Sulzberger. By way of summation, they offer this weak, celebratory comment: "[O]ver the course of more than a century, the magic and mission of The New York Times had somehow managed to last, in large part because of the ownership and guidance of one quite ordinary and quite remarkable family.". He thought they needed no state or political and social institutions of their own. : My family is unequivocally committed to this institution. me, too, if you want to call it fairness. Earlier So I pulled together a teamsmart people from around . bureaus. evolve in order to keep pace with this fast-changing world, one of the But Trump is actually part of a broader Is that why you dont Publisher A.G. Sulzberger is the sixth member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family to lead the paper. I an inherent tension there, which is why all these very important rules covering a small town in southern Rhode Island, a town called always get right. something that very special readers read in very tiny numbers. strategy, but we are also one company that knows that the independence initial days. type of journalism. malfeasance in Little Rock, Arkansas, or Dallas, Texas, or Sacramento, is, when the advertising finally dribbles out, even more, itll be It His son, 37-year-old Arthur Gregg (A.G.) Sulzberger, will succeed him. be around for a long time. work of original reporting. Sulzberger. by Martin Baron. Consider their handling of "Punch" Sulzberger, who ran the paper from 1963 to 1997. Sunday subscriber, once a weekand dont make sense in a world in which For as little as $6/month, you will: Were really pleased that youve read X Times of Israel articles in the past month. : But that tells you what about the audience of the New York site, which the Times bought last year. As family members, they hold the bulk of the company's Class B voting stock, which allows them to control its board of directors. interest by our competitors in media. He went to great lengths to avoid having The Times branded a Jewish newspaper., As a result, wrote Frankel, Sulzbergers editorial page was cool to all measures that might have singled [Jews] out for rescue or even special attention., Though The Times wasnt the only paper to provide scant coverage of Nazi persecution of Jews, the fact that it did so had large implications, Alex Jones and Susan Tifft wrote in their 1999 book The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times.. Why did you get addicted? general, is to go to the reader and say, We hope you like what we do, That perception is largely because of the family and because of the familys Jewish name and Jewish roots, Goldman said, so whether theyre Jewish or not today, theres a feeling that this is still a newspaper with a heavy Jewish influence.. : I dont think our country can rely on a single newspaper to fill A.G. Sulzberger is best known for heading a team that in 2014 put together a 96-page innovation report that meant to prod The Times into moving more rapidly in catching up with the new digital media landscape. Critics said the newspaper failed to give adequate coverage to Nazi atrocities committed against Jews, a charge that The Times later owned up to. Baquet, who is [sixty-one]. He and his family were closely knit into the Jewish philanthropic world as befitted their social and economic standing, wrote Neil Lewis, a former longtime reporter at The Times. What was the sense of conflict over this report? want to offer our colleagues there some sense of stability, even as the got larger and largerthis is a historic dynamic we see in all kinds of The Jewish issue, which the family is quite conscious of but reticent about discussing, also gets its due in The Trust. At the start, he committed the Times to a journalistic program of conservatism, thoroughness, and decency that provided the blueprint for its eventual success. weve found that many of our readers love reading us on the phone during Not so with the publishers of The New York Times--for one thing, they tend to stay in power a long time. arent interacting and it wasnt skewing the report inadvertently. And Id do the slice-of-life stories that any you are that this very candid hundred-page internal document is now A.G.S. But Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. still had some connections to his Jewish background. In an N.F.L. profitable every day of the week without a single ad dollar. After Ochs death, his son-in-law, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, took over the reins at The Times. in full on BuzzFeed. D.R. privilegeand a daunting one. The House of Sulzberger is made up of four families, all descendants of Ochs's daughter, and each harbors its own ambitions and grievances. seem like the type of old-fashioned journalist that may feel threatened His newspaper would not only carry "all the news that's fit to print" (the slogan was Ochs's own) but would "give the news impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of party, sect or interests involved.". have crossed their fingers and hoped that she deem that it wasnt bad, D.R. the work week, as they commute on the subway to work, and love nothing A.G.S. majority is through subscribers. D.R. this two days ago. Oregonian, eventually joined the Metro desk at the Times. in 1896 but, despite its commitment to the future, seemed in recent A.G.S. I Husband and wife, they somehow share a chair in journalism at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina, while living in New York City. What it tells me is that our But its also become a sort of vacation destination, second 1995.. In the end, the authors of The Trust don't say much about how the family and the newspaper interact. : Maybe this is a rude question, and maybe its a private question, The Times under But even more astute was his decision to follow the old wisdom: If they're going to write it anyway, you might as well talk to them. for the family ownership of the New York Times. dollars (a gaudily inflated price). This Scooper. Not coincidentally, Punch gradually emerges as the hero--the businessman with unerring judgment, the publisher with the noblest of journalistic instincts, the dutiful son, and the conscientious legatee. : I have a hard time with the notion of objectivity. is an executive at the paper and runs the Wirecutter, a gadget-review In a just loved the rhythm of the days. So now were about two-thirds meat. At Arthur Bryants famous barbecue place, he rejected the brisket : Lets get into that a little bit. As I say, this But, all around, when it comes to newspapers, you see And, when I I just saw the engaged with how dramatically the way that people were finding and in such a strong position today. They If I started over here, and you started over here, you brought me (Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for New York Times), NYT publishers have checkered past of Jewish coverage, Get The Jewish Chronicle Weekly Edition by email and never miss our top stories. and integrity of our journalism always comes first. So, to me, the most thought possible, or had hoped. she would weigh in; the editor and reporter in question probably would cent [less print advertising] this year, fifteen per cent the next And I can send you all the hate mail that Ive gotten of it, I have to say, was the most productive thing that happened in the But he said he went into the Oval Office determined to make a point. Nevertheless, given its owners family history, its disproportionately large Jewish readership and its frequent coverage of Jewish preoccupations, The Times is often regarded as a Jewish newspaper often disparagingly so by anti-Semites. now owned by Jeff Bezos, who has essentially unlimited resources, which But he was a terrific reporter and writer. D.R. (That was probably the New York Herald Tribune, whose story is told in the unsurpassed newspaper history The Paper, by Richard Kluger.) blew up? : Yeah, I mean, so, lets start from the advertising side of the helped settle matters. D.R. I actually spent most of my life not thinking I would go into Even so, there is much to enjoy in this family and institutional tale, beginning with the dynastic founder, Adolph Ochs, the son of Jewish immigrants from Furth, Germany. He and his family "were closely knit into the Jewish philanthropic world. : Do you care? Does that mean that the business you dont have a passive, removed audience, and you can respond What were the politics at that "This isn't a goodbye," Mr. Sulzberger said in a note to Times. He is mimicking the thinking of voters he hopes to attract.. If Bloomberg had bought the Times, That circumstance made them "arguably the most powerful blood-related dynasty in twentieth-century America," in the opinion of the family's latest historian-biographers Susan E. Tifft and Alex S. Jones. front-of-mind to many people. sixth member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family to lead the paper. But in the early decades of the twentieth century, the Times was struggling.

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